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A March snowstorm in Barcelona: climate vs weathervideos
March 8, 2010 and it snowed in Barcelona. This is a city where the average low temperature for the month is 9 degrees. The very unusual snowstorm caused the city to semi-shutdown: the buses stopped running, schools shut down and some neighborhoods lost electricity.El Niño probably played a hand ...
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3 days, 1 hour ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Living like it's 2050: Transition Farm in North Carolinavideos
"By 2050 we will probably use about double the amount of energy we use today, that is if we keep on doing things as we always have."- First report of the UK Industry Task Force on Peak Oil & Energy Security (ITPOES).The Transition Towns movement was started in Ireland, and ...
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4 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
What hackers can teach greenies and Sarah Palin as eco-modelblogs
I was publicly criticized by a few hackers* last week and after a bit of soul searching, I've decided their action-oriented ethos may be what's needed to help fix what's wrong with the fight against climate change. (*I'm using the term hacker in reference to computer ...
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3 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 6 comments
Hackers on happiness & tiny houses, plus The Story of Stuffblogs
Last week, my husband posted to Hacker News a link to my video about a guy who
lives in a 96-square-foot home. It seems hackers like
small houses. Within hours, a couple thousand of them had visited the
video.Their comments were different from the average green blog
crowd. Besides ...
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3 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 8 comments
La geoingeniería más efectiva: menos hijos y menos carneblogs
El modo más efectivo, drástico y económico de luchar contra el cambio climático y catástrofes como la deforestación no ha surgido del departamento de investigación de ninguna empresa puntera de Silicon Valley, ni mezcla las virtudes de la geoingeniería con las llamadas tecnologías limpias, o cleantech.Nada de eso. El ...
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5 months, 2 weeks ago by: nicolas.boullosa staff comments
Slow down. My philosophy for life also applies to the road.blogs
Simple step easily available to nearly all Americans, which costs nothing, and makes a real difference.
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7 months, 1 week ago by: BioDieselHauling user comments
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Climate control for sidewalks: making stores close the doornews
A loophole exists in our global warming awareness. As most of us are are investing in energy saving appliances and insulating our homes to cut the need for climate control, there's a large segment of our communities that still find it acceptable to run the air conditioning or heating ...
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8 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff / nicolas.boullosa staff 2 comments
Can whitewash, tinted windows & closed doors save the earth?blogs
The fight against climate change has taken a rather low-tech turn lately. Obama's Energy Secretary Stephen Chu wants to fight climate change by whitewashing the world's roofs roads and pavements.California's air regulators are requiring automakers, beginning in 2012, to install sun-reflecting glass in the windows of ...
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8 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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Thoreau's simple life at Waldenvideos
"In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Henry David Thoreau in 1851 at a time when he was one of the few thinking about environmental conservation. Six years previous he had embarked on a now-famous experiment in simple living. He'd gone to the woods outside Boston to ...
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9 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Jetter l'énergie par les portesnews
encourager les magasins à fermer la porte.
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8 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff 2 comments